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December 1, 2016Emerson String Quartet Celebrates 40th Anniversary
The Emerson String Quartet performs on Sunday, December 4, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. in Memorial Chapel.
The Series helps celebrate the eminent Emerson String Quartet’s 40th Anniversary season in a program of Ravel’s Quartet in F Major, Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 10 in A-flat Major, Op. 118, and Debussy’s Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10.
The Emerson String Quartet has accumulated an unparalleled list of achievements over three decades: more than thirty acclaimed recordings, nine Grammys®, three Gramophone Awards, the Avery Fisher Prize, Musical America’s “Ensemble of the Year” and collaborations with many of the greatest artists of our time. The Emerson’s 2015-16 season began with the release of a disc with world-renowned soprano Renée Fleming on the Decca/Universal label, featuring Viennese music written in the 1920s and ‘30s: Berg’s Lyric Suite (including an alternate version of the last movement for soprano and quartet), Egon Wellesz’s Sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Eric Zeisl’s Komm, süsser Tod (Come, sweet Death).
Formed in 1976 and based in New York City, the Emerson was one of the first quartets formed with two violinists alternating in the first chair position. The Emerson Quartet, which took its name from the American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, is Quartet-in-Residence at Stony Brook University. In January 2015, the Quartet received the Richard J. Bogomolny National Service Award, Chamber Music America’s highest honor, in recognition of its significant and lasting contribution to the chamber music field.
Individual tickets are $30. All students are free. Subscription packages offer significant savings. For information, call 518-388-6080 or visit http://www.unioncollegeconcerts.org.
